NGinx: set localhost/project to project git folder -

i working on small website in free time. development, keep git repositories in ~/git. possible configurate nginx if go localhost/a or localhost/b, use ~/git/a , ~/git/b respectively?

i using fedora , tried single repo, keep getting 404:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user nginx; worker_processes auto; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; pid /run/nginx.pid;  events {     worker_connections 1024; }  http {     log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '                       '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '                       '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';      access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;      sendfile            on;     tcp_nopush          on;     tcp_nodelay         on;     keepalive_timeout   65;     types_hash_max_size 2048;      include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;     default_type        application/octet-stream;      server {         listen       80;         server_name  localhost;         root         /home/martenbe/git/;         index        index.html index.php;          location /a/ {             alias /home/martenbe/git/a/;         }     }      server {         listen       80 default_server;         listen       [::]:80 default_server;         server_name  _;         root         /usr/share/nginx/html;          # load configuration files default server block.         include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;          location / {         }          error_page 404 /404.html;             location = /40x.html {         }          error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;             location = /50x.html {         }     } } 

i think following should work you.

server {     listen       80;     server_name  localhost;     root         /home/martenbe/git/;     index        index.html index.php; } 

you don't need add location module because have defined root. if try localhost/a/index.html, nginx try find under /home/martenbe/git/a/index.html.

what requests trying ?